Dr. Mario

"More Mario games. This one good?"

I got ripped off in a trade with this game financially. I traded my Monopoly Color for this game and 5 bucks. My friend told me this after and I didn't know what to think. You are Mario and you are getting rid of a virus. You do this by matching different colored pills with matching colored viruses.

Graphics: 5/10

Not great, but what you would expect from an old GB game. The pills are one of 3 colors, white, black, and white and black spotted. Mario is holding the next pill to be dropped.
The viruses have repeated motions and they fall down when you knock one off the screen. They disappear when you have knocked off all of that color virus.

Music: 8/10

You get three different tracks, but you don't really listen to them when you are playing the game. There are sound effects if you get combos and the more combos you get, the better the effect.

Control: 9/10

You press a button, it moves in the right direction. Not much else to say.

Fun factor: 6/10

No battery back-up hurts since you can't save high scores. You can start at any level and at any speed (slow, medium, fast). Level 20 is almost impossible. This game gets boring after a while.

Overall: 6/10

The fun factor hurt it, as well as the graphics. This game is currently gathering dust on my shelf.

Reviewer's Score: 6/10, Originally Posted: 01/23/00, Updated 01/23/00